Joyce Elaine Solomon Moorman
1946 -
About
Joyce Solomon Moorman (b. 1946), was born in the campus hospital of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, but spent her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, where she attended segregated public elementary and high schools. She earned her B. A. degree from Vassar College, the M. A. T. degree from Rutgers University, the M. F. A. degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and the Ed. D. degree from Columbia University. Her principal composition teacher was Meyer Kupferman. Her compositions have been performed nationally and internationally by Lilan Parrot, Triad Chorale, Wilson Moorman, LonGar Ebony Ensemble, the Woodhill Chamber Ensemble, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, After Dinner Opera Company, Sandra Billingslea, the Plymouth Chorus and Orchestra, the Cygnus Chamber Ensemble, the Moravian Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony. In addition, she has performed as an accompanist nationally with chamber and choral groups. Dr. Moorman was a winner of the Vienna Modern Masters 1998 Millennium Commission Competition, received a performance award in the Andy Warhol Composers’ Competition sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and she was appointed by the Governor of New York to the Advisory Music Panel for the New York State Council on the Arts. She has recently retired as a Professor in the Music and Art Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
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